What role do language and discourse play in the advancement of peace? What is the connection between a given society's -peace language- and the repeated failure of peace initiatives involving it? At the heart of this book lie these basic questions and the attempt to shed light on them from new angles. The book focuses on an analysis of Israeli peace discourse and indicates the need for change in this discourse in order to promote a -culture of peace-. It presents the process of peace-estrangement, a set of linguistic, discursive and cultural devices intended for creating doubt...